the book is mainly about a girl who has done her friends wrong in the past who comes to befriend her previous friends. she comes to a piont where shethe book is mainly about a girl who has done her friends wrong in the past who comes to befriend her previous friends. she comes to a piont where she has bnefriended a nerd who may know who is stealing students cellphones and money. she soon comes to be one of the people who has seen a student gone wild and brung a gun to school. but its not pretty when she goes home, her step father has left her and her mom and has went elsewhere and has cleaned the house out clean. text to world their are many kids who are going thru what arielle (main charecter)is. kids find it very difficult to have to adjust to a new father. and some of the time the kids dont like the father so they rebel.but arielle didnt really have time to rebel because the father had left the home and he had taken everything he could with him. i gave this book 5 stars because i thought that it was very good. most of the time it kept me in suspence and i lied that. i would reccomend this book to people who like teen books....more

this book is about a boy who lives in africa near where their is war. he goes and travels to his relatives town. while he is over there he runs into tthis book is about a boy who lives in africa near where their is war. he goes and travels to his relatives town. while he is over there he runs into the rebels that have distroyed his home town. they recruit him and they make him kill. while he is all brainwashed a group called unicef comes and captures him. they rehabilitate him and put him in a school and he is then a normal kid again. text to text in the move blood dimond the same transaction occurs. a kid is captured from his home town and they drug him up. then they make him one of the rebels. but then a group comes and rescues him. and he is rehabilitated and eventually put in a school. i gave this book 1 star because i thought it was really boring. the writer was really too descriptive. i would reccomend this book to nobody because of the boredom it brung to me....more

the book is about this kid named jounior who turns out to be kind of a loser. he has good grades but he is'nt popular. and he gets fed up with the schthe book is about this kid named jounior who turns out to be kind of a loser. he has good grades but he is'nt popular. and he gets fed up with the school and how its not updated with books and lessons, so what he does is transfer to a more updated school where most of the kids are smart and they are up to date with everything and they are popular. so what he does is tries to fit in and since he is poor he just wanted to leave out that fact so the people would accept him more. that didn't work out but it still favored him. the girl he liked felt bad for him became his girlfriend and then he got even more popular. so he joined the basketball team and his old best friend kinda beat him up a little but still defended him. so they have an exibition game and the game he has distroyed his ex-best friend. but eventually he amd his ex-bestfriend worked everything out and became best friends. text to world many kids transfer school but this kid transfer schools and lied. but a lot of kids do that to make themselves seem more cool.and thats what jounior did.and he almost made it work because usuallt whenyou lie about your life it gets out. i gave this book three stars because it was funny but i felt that wasnt enough. i would reccomend this book to people who like funny books....more

the book was about a girl amed amari who was captured from her home town in africa who was then sold to a man named clay who abused her at night and mthe book was about a girl amed amari who was captured from her home town in africa who was then sold to a man named clay who abused her at night and made her clean during the day. the book was also about a girl named polly who at first didnt like people of color, who then after working off her 14 year indentured service, that was brought on by her dead parents soon came to realize that it doesnt matted about the color of your skin it matters about who you are as a person. she came to her sences after working with amari. both of the girls ran away to go to a promised land in the north-west. text to world people back when the time occured were running away from their owners all the time. most of the runaways would be shot or kidnapped or not even make it to where their going because of lack of water. but some made it to the north. and some went to the west and found freedom just like amari. i gave the book three stars because i liked the book a lot but it got really boring some of the time. i just kept on reading so that i could get on with the book but it eventually got better. i would reccomend this book to people who like adventure and suspence....more

the book is about a kid named andy. he goes after a game out with some friends and they drink, next thing he knows he had just killed his best friendthe book is about a kid named andy. he goes after a game out with some friends and they drink, next thing he knows he had just killed his best friend robbie. now hes comming back from the hospital and he is really depressed. he feels horrible about the whole thing. he does not know what to do anymore so he goes back to school. he continues to go to basketball. he feels really guilty because he took robbies place as foward. but now he realizes that he was really good because he had just made a far away shot and made it. so when he thinks every thing is good his girlfriend kiesha breaks up with him because she thinks she needs some space from andy. so what andy does is he goes home at late night calls kiesha to make sure she doesnt hate him, but she is sleeping and andy doesnt know that and he takes his fathers rifle and kills himself.text to world their is teen drinking all over the world. most kid do it and most of them get into accedents. some of them kill people. and thats what andy did. he killed his best friend. i gave this book 5 stars because i thought that it was very captavating and that it was very intresting to read. i would reccomend this book to people that would want to read about teen stories...more

the book is about a little 13 year old girl who styarts out in freedomtown. there she is very poor. any little money they get the father gambles away.the book is about a little 13 year old girl who styarts out in freedomtown. there she is very poor. any little money they get the father gambles away. the little girl was sent away to a whore house. the first time she was there she had to go and sleep with this guy but she refused. so she was beaten. after that she was drugged and forced to have sex with the men. later on in the book she met this man who snuck her out of the whore house and brung her to america. there she was free at last. text to world all over the world people are being sold as sex slaves. and connecting to the book the little 13 year old was sold to a whore house. And forced agenst their will to have sex with strangers. plus some people just give their doughters away to just about anyone. i would give the book 2 stars because it was kind of good but it wasn't great it was just ok to me. i wouldn't reccomend the book to people who want action bexcause it has a lot of boring parts to it....more

the book is mainly about kiesha. the girl who lost her boyfriend to suicide and one of her friends in a car crash. kiesha tryies to move on with her lthe book is mainly about kiesha. the girl who lost her boyfriend to suicide and one of her friends in a car crash. kiesha tryies to move on with her life when she hears about the news. but she just seems to struggle. text to world many people have lost their friends in drunk driving accedents. and have lost their friends to suicide. but kiesha has lost two to both. and some kids and teens and adults have aswell.i gave this book 4 stars because it really got me intrested in the story. i would reccomend this book to people who can relate to the story....more

the book is mainly about two really messed up kids.they both mooved to a school in middleton and have been treated lke outcasts by the teachers and ththe book is mainly about two really messed up kids.they both mooved to a school in middleton and have been treated lke outcasts by the teachers and the students.eventually after all of the bullying they dicided to take revenge. so the pack away guns and bookbags full of ammunition. and what they do at prom is they start shooting and yelling. and they nearly killed a kid. but the kid they nearly killed will never be able to play football again.even though he got a scholorship to play. one of the kids shot himself and the other crazyier kid had gotten tackeled by one football player and then every body else started to stomp on his head as well. text to world their are school shootings everywhere. and when they happen almost all of the time someone gets hurt or killed.just like in the book. the shootr and the victim got hurt. and a teacher was shot in the face. but luckally survived. and most of the time in school shootings people dont survive. i gave this book 5 stars becaus i thought that it was really good. it kept on raising the suspence and i got even more intrested in reading it. i would reccomend this book to people who like action....more

the book is mainly about ying. he has to save china. he has to unite with hias brothers to do so. he has to first find them to save china. the book cothe book is mainly about ying. he has to save china. he has to unite with hias brothers to do so. he has to first find them to save china. the book connects to me because it is about uniting. me and my brother and cousins did that whe we were younger. we would go and play a game of cops and robbers. and we would have to unite like in the book to get out of trouble. i gave this boook 4 stars because it was full of action. i would reccomend this book to people who like action....more

the book is about a little girl name hok. she was a little girl at the beginning of her life. but then she had to be changed just like china. china wathe book is about a little girl name hok. she was a little girl at the beginning of her life. but then she had to be changed just like china. china was taking her mom away and her mom had to turn her daughter into a boy so that she could practice marcial arts. but the temple was only for boys and the master accepted her only because he showed sympathy for her. but soon after that she was very good at marcial rts and she left the temple and left to find her mother. but she was stoped in the middle of her journey and she had to fight for life and deth. and she won but was wounded. and her journey countinued. i can connest to this book because remember whe i had to go on a journey to go to my moms job. so i had to go and take the train alone. so i had to go and transfer and i didnt take the right stop and i hit a bump in the road just like in the book. she got injured in the book so she had to get help. just like when i had gotten lost and i had to get help to go to my moms job. i rated this book 5 stars because it was very interesting. it wasvery suspenceful. i couls connect to it and i liked the action. so i would reccomend this book to anyone who likes action....more

the book was mostly about a guy named scott and girl named crystal. crystal was loking for some adventure in her life. scott is a strange deranged kidthe book was mostly about a guy named scott and girl named crystal. crystal was loking for some adventure in her life. scott is a strange deranged kid who has day dreams of killing people. so scott has a girfriend. his girlfriend started out sweet but grew in to what scott thinks is a "no way to behave" behavior. so he invites her into the neighbors pool so they could go for a swim. but scott knows that the pool is empty. so he dares her to dive inside and she does and she dies. so after that he and his parents moove away to go to a new town called shadyside. thats the same town crysal is in. so when he mooves there he goes and he gets introdused and he settles in. and then he meets crystal. he does not like her, he thinks she does not know how to behave. and whats even worse is that she has this friend that does not know how to behave evem more than her. so hat ends up happening is that she tries to get to close to him and he kills her. so then scott takes a look at crystals sister who is kind of quiet and she doesn't really go out and she would rather just stay inside and read a book. so scott sees that and he likes it. but when scott askes her out crystal comes in. she wants to make sure that her sister dresses ok and that she is appealing. so she gives her some of her clothes. and when scott sees her all hes thinking is "no way to behave" i can connect this book to my mom and my cousin. my cousin always likes to look pretty. and my mom has always wanted a girl. so what my cousin does is that she goes to my mom so that she can dress her and do her hair and all of that stuff. so just like the book. crystal is like my mom always trying to help. their like the same person, almost. i would rate this book five stars because to me i thought it was really good. i really liked how it was a horrer book that always kept me reading. i liked that it actually gave some real horrer and noit always let the good people live. and i like how they had scotts character because you couldnt tell what he was going to do from the begining of the book. his first act of violence was a completley new thing to me. i would reccomend this book to everybody who likes a thrill in their book. because i thought that this book really had a thrill....more

the book is basically bout this girl named lauren. she and her two sisters live in their house with their mom and their dad. lauren devoloped early anthe book is basically bout this girl named lauren. she and her two sisters live in their house with their mom and their dad. lauren devoloped early and so she doesnt get a lot of dates. she is in the ninth grade and there is this 8th grade boy who likes her. but he likes law and so does she. and so they both take law together. and they suddenly become partners in a project together. and so he likes her obviously and she does but doesnt want to like him because he is in the ninth grade. but her female instincts tell her to like him more and more. i can connect to this because i went out with this girl last year and she was in the eighth grade and i was in the seventh grade. she broke up with me because of what grade i was in. but the following year she told me that she still liked me but that it was only me grade. and thatswhy she broke up with me. just like in the book she likes him but it is the grade that is the only difficulty. i rated this book 3 stars because it was a good book. i liked how it ended. i liked the way it connected to my life. what it could of used was more action because those are perticuarlly the types of books that i like to read. i would reccomend this book to the people who like to read books that are kind of funny and that tell a good story....more

the book is basically about this kid named jonathan. he is only 14 and wants to join the revolutionairy war. so what he does is he runs away from homethe book is basically about this kid named jonathan. he is only 14 and wants to join the revolutionairy war. so what he does is he runs away from home and he goes and joins. later after he gets aquainted he feels so proud that he has joined. and when the town bell sounds everybody scrambles. and now he has to join the was for real this time. and when he does he sees things he has never seen before. and he is suddenly stuck in the most frightining position ever. he thinks he is surrounded but it tourns out to be some body else. this book connects to me. i have to make big choices all the time. i have to choose what middle school i want to go to. i have to choose tio do good in school and do well. i have to choose what to say and what not to. just like jonathan. he had to choose to leave his family to do what he thinks is right. and to him he thinks he made the right choice. i gave this book 2 stars because i thought that it was an alright book. but i thought that it could have been more suspenceful. and i thought that it could have had more action and it could have explained more what was happening. i would reccomend this book to people who like reading books about history. and to the people who like reading books about war....more

ribsy is about this dog named ribsy. the dog was found a few years ago. now that the dog has an owner he is living with him. but when the owner goes aribsy is about this dog named ribsy. the dog was found a few years ago. now that the dog has an owner he is living with him. but when the owner goes and heads out to the mall ribsy gets really nervous. so what he does is he somehow rolls down the window and he escapes. and now that he has he wonderes off and looks for his owner. and then he gets lost. so what he does is he goes back to the car he was in but he couldnt find it. and so he just finds a car that looks like his owners car and hops inside. while he is in there he goes and takes a nap. and when he wakes up he finds that he is in the back of somebody elses car, and he is not in his owners car. so ribsy is really lost. and while he is there he just tries to blend in with the family so that later he can escape. but the family takes ribsy and the try to give him a bath. and ribsy was trying to get free the whole time. after he took a bath he ran out and he went to the next place and the next and this whole time he is just lost. i can connect to this book because i have a dog who does the same things. one time me and my mom went to the bank and we left the dog in the car with the window opened just enough so she could get some air. but we didnt leave it so much so she could jump out. and so what happened was that she went and she somehow opened it more and she hopped out and started barking at random people in the parking lot. and we found out because some lady cam and asked if that ws our dog. and when i herd that i ran outside and i went to get her. just like in the book when ribsy opened the window to get out. i would rate this book 3 stars because i thought that it was funny. i liked how the author told the story and how he discribed what was going on in the book. i would reccomend this book to people who like funny books about animals. because that is what the story is mainly about....more

the book is mainly about this rabbit named edward. at first he was pampered. he had a good life and he lived with a little girl that took care of him.the book is mainly about this rabbit named edward. at first he was pampered. he had a good life and he lived with a little girl that took care of him. and one day he was lost. he fell out of a window. and he was in the sea for a long time. and a fisherman found him. and what he did with him was he cleaned him up. and he took him and gave him to his little kid. and soon he was lost again. and the same thing kept on happening and the whole time the little girl was felling sad because she lost her edward. i can relate to this because my brother use to have this little toy that he use to keep arouind and he loved the toy a lot. and what wound up happening was that he was playing with it and he lost it in a supermarket. he dropped it and forgot where he put it. and this connects to the book because the little girl lost her toy and she didnt know where. i gae this book 2 stars because it was kind of boring. it didnt really have any action and i really didnt like it that much. i would reccomend this book to anyone who likes reading books that is about little toys finding little girls....more

this book is absically about a kid named chill. he has a bad leg and a talent. that talent is art. he is really good at art. he knows how to draw realthis book is absically about a kid named chill. he has a bad leg and a talent. that talent is art. he is really good at art. he knows how to draw really well and he is basically good at every concept of art. so their is a new teacher at school. his name is mr. sfinkter. and he doesnt like chill. he thiks that he is just some punk kid who doesn't know how to do anyting. so what he does is he picks on him. and he gets under his skin. so what chill does is he takes his rage on the teacher and reflects it in his art. so the art teacher assighnes a project to chill. she says you can make a mural that will welcome kids into the new school. so what chill does is he makes mr.sfinkter on his mural. mr. sfinkter is stepping on two kids and the rest are in agony. the caption is you can shine and soar to the light is you get past the darkness. and chill implied that mr. sfinkter is the darkness. i can connect to this book because i have had a teacher just like that. in 3rd grade i had a science teacher who was really tough on the rest of the class. if you spoke up once he would call your parents. he would make you stay after school if you did one thing wrong. and if some one accused you of doing something wrong he would call both of the kids parents and say that you were disrupting the class. now i didn't do something as bad tpo get back as chill did, but i had my share of revenge. i would do things like tell others about him and what he did. and he would get mad. but what chill did got mr. sfinkter furious. i would rate this book 4 stars because i thought that it was really good how the teacher did al of thpose mean things t chill. i really liked how chill got back in public. i ould reccomend tis book to people who like reading books about school and its real life affects....more

this book is about a girl named juanita and a boy named miguel. and a spanish speaking aunt named lola. lola is the aunt of miguel and juanita. they cthis book is about a girl named juanita and a boy named miguel. and a spanish speaking aunt named lola. lola is the aunt of miguel and juanita. they call her tia lola. as soon as tia lola came from the the airport she was just crazy. she didnt know any english and she was dresses to people in vermont abnormally. so when miguel found her they greeted her and they sent her to their mother. and from there the crazy continued. she got to their house and she unpacked and all of her clothes looked like a rainbow. they were really crazy looking and they were mostly dresses. when the weekend ended they went back to school and they all went with tia lola and ofcorse she imbarresed them. all of the kids at the kids school were asking is that crazy lady was their aunt. but towards th end of the book they grew to lovetia lola. i can relate to the story because my grandmother came form another spanish spaeking country aswell as tia lola. but unlike miguel and juanita i like having my grandmother around. so i can connect to that because of my grandmother. i would rate this book three stars. it was really good and i like dhow it included spanish in the text and how it defied it aswell. i would reccomend thins book to anybody who liked forighn books that speak the language in it....more

the book is basically about these kids who start this club. their main goal is to make a million dollars. so they first come up with this plot to pretthe book is basically about these kids who start this club. their main goal is to make a million dollars. so they first come up with this plot to pretend to have found a picture of a ufo. so they go and they start throwing a bunch of things in the air and they take pictures of it and it seems that none of them look like ufos. so they take their lst picture but one accidently pushes the other one and the shot was taken and it looked like a ufo. so they tried selling it to news papers and they failed and they kept on trying to make more money after. i can connect to this because me and my brother did something similar. we tried to make 220 dollars so that we could get an xbox 360....more

the book is about a little boy named jackie. he started off really poor. but he did what he was told and he started playing baseball. and from there the book is about a little boy named jackie. he started off really poor. but he did what he was told and he started playing baseball. and from there he started getting better and better. and eventually he got into schools. and from there he became a famous baseball player. i can connect to the story because i set my mind to typing really fast and at first i really was slow because i coulndt type because in less than a minute but now i can in less then 4 seconds. so it just comes to show that in time you can achive what you set your mind to. just like jackie. i would have givin this book three stars because i thought that it was good. i liked how it related to me. but i didnt like how it was formatted. i would reccomend his book to people who like baseball and legionds. because thats what this book was about....more

this book is about a girl and her very adventurous dog named Winn-Dixie. they have a lot of adventures and they get into some trouble aswell. when thethis book is about a girl and her very adventurous dog named Winn-Dixie. they have a lot of adventures and they get into some trouble aswell. when the little girl found Winn-Dixie she found him in a market scavaging for some food. but then for some reason Winn-Dixie saw something and he burst into rampage. and then the little girl went after him and she calmed him down. and after that was done she went and se took Winn-Dixie home ad she gave him a bath and fixed him up and named him Winn-Dixie. i cam connect to this book because i once had a dog who i found. i named him tyson. i found him on the street. and i found him while he was a stray. so i did the same thing that the little girl did. i cleaned him up and i gave him a bath. i would giv...more

the book is about a guy named vladek. he is a jew in the time of the nazis. and him and his family have been through everything the nazis have done. bthe book is about a guy named vladek. he is a jew in the time of the nazis. and him and his family have been through everything the nazis have done. but luckaly he doesnt die at all. but instead he makes it but gets captured in a nazi camp. but his sruglle to get food for his wife and for himself was explained thru the book. he goes and hides and he tries to do whatever he can to get out of nazi territory....more

the book maus is about a jew rat that needs to hide from the nazis in order to survive. but unfrtunatly he gets captured and gets put into a concentrathe book maus is about a jew rat that needs to hide from the nazis in order to survive. but unfrtunatly he gets captured and gets put into a concentration camp. there he is tortured and starved. but he still needs to do work and et on some nazis good side so he can get some advantiges. but finally towards the end of the book he escapes. and from there he tries to rescue his wife. and they make it alive . more then 10 years later his son wants to write a comic on their life in the time of nazis. and he uses the jew rats stories to do so.

i can connect this to real life because this has actually happened in history. the nazis did take over. and they did kill thousands of jews. they took the lives of many jews because of hitler. and hiding from the nazis was some thing the jews did. and they tried to get on the nazis good side aswell.

i rate this book 5 stars because of the suspence. i liked how it kept on having new things happen and how it made me wonder weather hewas going to make it alive. i would reccomend this book to people who like suspenceful books....more

this book is about three kids named sampson remek and gearge. they beat the streets by becoming doctors. nd they did so by creating a pact that wouldthis book is about three kids named sampson remek and gearge. they beat the streets by becoming doctors. nd they did so by creating a pact that would lead them thru highschool and college and medical school. but mostly thru the years they had to spren living in the streets. they had overcome many challenges thru their first years but they had to do it for the rest of their lives. and that was the hardest part.i can connect to this book because i am going thru what they are aswell. i live in a kind of bad neighborhood. but at the same time i have people who want me to suceed. and thats what the three doctors had too.i would rate this book 5 sars because i liked how they showed all of the crimes that actually happened in the streeets. and how they didnt keep out any parts that were too bad for a book. i liked ho i could connect to the book aswell. i would reccomend this book to people who can connect to the lifes the three docters....more